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MONMOUTH - Western Oregon University's enrollment hit another record high this year, officially numbering 5,654 students, 305 more than a year ago.

A pregnant woman was repeatedly beaten with a collapsible police baton before a "cutting instrument" was used to slice open her abdomen and remove her fetus, a detective testified Tuesday.

A man opened fire with a rifle Tuesday at a drug-testing laboratory in suburban Portland, killing a female employee and wounding two other workers before fatally shooting himself, police said.

Gov. Ted Kulongoski has made another surprise trip to Iraq to visit Oregon National Guard troops.

An Oregon woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and cutting the baby out of her womb will remain in jail without bail pending trial.A judge ruled Tuesday that 28-year-old Korena Roberts should remain in custody on aggravated murder charges in the June 5 death of 21-year-old Heather Snively.One of the lead detectives in the case testified at a ...

Dr. Phil Leveque Salem-News.com It is very comforting to me that after 10 years of the Oregonian dragging my patients and I through the mud that they have finally become enlightened and crawled out of the closet.

Weather is the topic of many conversations throughout Oregon as the week begins, with massive amounts of snowfall dropping in the Cascades and wind and heavy rain blasting the coast.

Has anyone found anything better then the Newsbank system you can access at the library? It only goes back to '88, and the search system is so, so bad.

The Oregon Department of Energy on Tuesday released a new set of rules for its controversial Business Energy Tax Credits designed to rein in what critics call an excessively expensive program.

The debate on the Affordable Health Care for American Act went late into the night Saturday.

The math isn't so hard when it comes to the faculty of the Tigard-Tualatin school district.

The low-lying sun cast shadows on the basalt field across the river just upstream of the Big Eddy Rapids.

People came from far and wide to take in the Oregon Handmade Bicycle Show last weekend.

A new public opinion study published in the American Political Science Review ranks Oregon 13th nationwide in support for same sex marriage rights, with about 45 percent of Oregonians supporting the cause.

Oregon Anti-Crime Alliance spokeswoman Tara Lawrence said Friday that courts and district attorneys around Oregon are being saddled with extra costs and workload from having to conduct thousands of resentencing reviews.

Selma native Kristy Lee Cook will perform at the annual Veterans Day Ceremony at the Oregon Fallen War Heroes Memorial in Central Point.

A federal judge has ruled that an Oregon orchard company did not break minimum wage laws by deducting money for food and housing from paychecks for seasonal workers.

Chris Dudley's free throw shots were always iffy propositions. Now the former Portland Trail Blazer is in a new arena taking aim at a governor's chair - and Oregon's Republicans think he can score.Dudley hasn't formally announced a bid for the post, but he filed paperwork last week to create a campaign committee."I'll make a decision soon and ...

The Internal Revenue Service says it has more than 1,300 refund checks worth $1,443,545 for Oregon taxpayers that were returned by the US Post Office due to mailing errors.

Oregon corrections officers have voted down a tentative contract with the state, balking at proposed pay cuts tied to unpaid furlough days, union officials said Wednesday.